Author's note: I am so sorry for how long it's been since my last posting! I just didn't have much these last two weeks, and time got away. But here's a little something that I was able to put together over the last couple of days, inspired by my dream of someday seeing the northern lights. <3 (Almost got the chance last weekend, too, but of course there were clouds. Ah well.)I sort of feel like this poem ends abruptly, so eventually I'll come back to fix that. What do you think?The title, "Northern Dawn," is a literal translation of "aurora borealis," the scientific name for the northern lights.

Thank you! :D There were so many stunning pictures of the aurora. I'm grateful to Hideyuki (the photographer) for letting others such as myself use his image under a Creative Commons license. <3 Ahhh, wouldn't they?? For sure it would be! One day, I'm going to drag myself out somewhere to see it.